Under New Jersey's new law, possession of BB gun merits three-year sentence

2:06 PM,
Jul. 6, 2008

Due to a change in the Graves Act, Ryan Narciso was charged with the unlawful possession of a gun.

Written by

KEN SERRANO
STAFF WRITER

Caught speeding in Highland Park in April in his father's Acura RSX, Ryan Narciso found out the hard way about a recent change in a New Jersey gun law that could send him to prison for three years.

The 20-year-old sales clerk at a shop at Menlo Park Mall and former Middlesex County College student had a pellet handgun in the car, according to an indictment filed last week in Superior Court, New Brunswick.

The gun, a Gamo P-23, was sitting under the rear window of the 2004 coupe. Looking like a larger-caliber handgun, the firearm drew a quick response from the bicycle-patrol officer who stopped ...

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